Deep Album Cuts Vol. 358: Black Sabbath
I have meant to this playlist for a long time, Sabbath are easily one of the most influential bands of all time just off of their enormous contributions to metal and heavy music.
Black Sabbath album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. A Bit Of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning
2. Jack The Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots
3. Planet Caravan
4. After Forever
5. Into The Void
6. Supernaut
7. Snowblind
8. Killing Yourself To Live
9. Symptom Of The Universe
10. Back Street Kids
11. Shock Wave
12. Heaven And Hell
12. Heaven And Hell
13. Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Track 1 from Black Sabbath (1970)
Tracks 2 and 3 from Paranoid (1970)
Tracks 4 and 5 from Master Of Reality (1971)
Tracks 6 and 7 from Vol. 4 (1972)
Track 8 from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
Track 9 from Sabotage (1975)
Track 10 from Technical Ecstasy (1976)
Track 11 from Never Say Die! (1978)
Track 12 from Heaven And Hell (1980)
Track 13 from Mob Rules (1981)
I decided to stick with Sabbath's classic '70s work with Ozzy and their first two post-Ozzy albums with Ronnie James Dio. The band has undergone many many lineup changes over the last 45 years, with Tony Iommi as the only constant, with a variety of different vocalists (Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, and Tony Martin) and reunions with Ozzy and Dio, but I didn't wanna deal with all that stuff, just the really good shit. The Ozzy era is obviously the best of the best, but I have a particular affection for the albums with Dio. Henry Rollins does a hilarious bit about blasting Mob Rules while his neighbors fuck, there's a goofy animated version on YouTube but it doesn't have Rollings singing a little bit of "Falling Off The Edge of the World" in a pretty funny Dio impression.
Black Sabbath's first album has songs that run together with segues and there's a bit of variation in how tracks are divided up. There are 9 song titles, and canonically there are usually 7 tracks on Black Sabbath, but the version of the album on Spotify currently has only 5 tracks. So I only included one track from Black Sabbath, but it's 14 minutes long and encompasses 3 songs.
I like making deep cuts playlists for big time metal bands (like Metallica, Maiden and Priest) because they tend to have a whole canon of fan favorites and live staples that exists almost entirely outside their radio singles, their heaviest and most epic songs. And in Sabbath's case, the only songs you really hear on the radio are the big three hits from Paranoid, but there's a bunch of other songs that are just as incredible. The more I listen to Sabbath, the more Bill Ward becomes one of my favorite drummers, that guy's just a beast, "After Forever" and "Supernaut" are fucking sick.
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